Grab Your Hankies And Prepare For The Sculptor Movie
Production studio 21 Laps has licensed the rights to Scott McCloud’s graphic novel The Sculptor and has assigned Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12) as director. There was an actual bidding war over the distribution rights, which Warner Bros. won. The Sculptor was released in 2015 and was McCloud’s first re-entry into the graphic novel fiction market after becoming world-famous for his analytical visual essays on the medium like Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics. This man literally wrote the book on how to make a comic book, so everyone was anticipating this GN before it came out. What they got was one of the saddest, most depressing stories to ever hit the medium…and granted, this is just my judgment and I don’t seek out the “sad” part of comics very often, but I’d hate to read something more crushing than this. The titular character is David Smith, a man with bold dreams of becoming the most famous sculptor in the world. Only problem with that is….nobody has become a household